Diet for a New America

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• ISBN13: 9780915811816
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From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of <i>Diet for a New America</i>, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, <i>Diet for a New America</i> is considered to be one of the most important. <i>Diet for a New America</i> is a startling examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the United States, and the astounding moral, economic, and emotional price we pay for it. <P>In Section I, John Robbins takes an extraordinary look at our dependence on animals for food and the inhumane conditions under which these animals are raised. It becomes clear that the price we pay for our eating habits is measured in the suffering of animals, a suffering so extreme and needless that it disrupts our very place in the web of life. <P>Section II challenges the belief that consuming meat is a requirement for health by pointing our the vastly increased rate of disease caused by pesticides, hormones, additives, and other chemicals now a routine part of our food production. The author shows us that the high health risk is unnecessary, and that the production, preparation, and consumption of food can once again be a healthy process. <P>In Section III, Robbins looks at the global implications of a meat-based diet and concludes that the consumption of the resources necessary to produce meat is a major factor in our ecological crisis. <P><i>Diet for a New America</i> is the single most eloquent argument for a vegetarian lifestyle ever published. Eloquently, evocatively, and entertainingly written, it is a cant put down book guaranteed to amaze, infuriate, but ultimately educate and empower the reader. A pivotal book nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1987.:
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Diet for a New America
This book changed my life in 1993. I was young and impressionable then, yet it still all makes total and complete sense today (unlike most things from my youth). John Robbins was set to be the heir to the Baskin Robbins throne but then walked away from all of it after learning about the industry. He makes good arguments all throughout this book and ties them to facts and logic, not emotion. I highly recommend it!

Fantastic resource!
I have been 95% vegan now for two years and finally got around to reading this classic expose of American factory farming, food industry propaganda and brainwashing, and environmental destruction, plus so much more.

Written in 1987 by the heir to the Baskin-Robbins empire, Robbins' book was highly influential and shocking at the time. These days, with Fast Food Nation, Michael Pollan's proselytizing on organic produce, and, really, the Internet's vast stores of information on feedlots and food politics, none of the information here is that shocking or new. Still, it's incredible to read and to understand WHY brainwashed ideas like the Protein Myth and the Calcium Myth exist ~ how they were created (by the food industries themselves) and perpetuated (advertising dollars!).

On the plus side, the availability of organic food and the rise of viral (no pun intended) information about the environmental destruction caused by factory farming HAS created a small shift over the last 22 years. On the downside, unfortunately, NOT that much has ultimately changed.

I don't condone preaching veganism because that's not an effective way to get the point across, but this book is a great resource for vegans (or wannabes) who would really like to know what they're talking about and choose to lead or inspire by example.

Diet for a New America
This is a very good book. I got a lot of information from it. It provides the evidences why and how we should have such a new diet in order to stay healthy.

Twenty years and counting...
I read this book 20 years ago when I was about to turn 30. A vegetarian friend turned me on to the book. I instantly gave up meat and have not looked back. I'll be 50 in a few weeks and everyone tells me there's no way I look that old and I sure don't feel that old. I give all the credit to my diet. This book makes the decision to give up meat a slam-dunk, no-brainer.

Not as great as I expected.
I know I should love this book, or at least consider it life-changing, but I just could not muscle my way through it. The typos and poor grammar had me questioning everything (if you can't bother to proof-read, did you bother to fact check?). And the individual anecdotes, cute though they were about dogs tracking hundreds of miles to find their owners and hens who surrogate parented ducks did not have the intended effect of making me see animals as more like "us." In fact, the whole idea of condemning anthropomorphism in one paragraph then making us feel like animals are just furry humans made me throw my hands up.

I am a vegan, and I condemn poor treatment of animals and the focus on meat in the American diet. But this book didn't make me feel more strongly about my beliefs -- in fact, I found myself at times sympathizing with the "murderers and oppressors," just because the whole thing was so over the top.

I feel bad about the rating I'm giving this book. But I feel worse about the time I wasted reading it.

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